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Study: 108GW of offshore wind and 140GW of storage needed to deliver net zero electricity grid by 2035

Cecilia Keating
Cecilia Keating
clock 08 June 2021 • 4 min read
Study: 108GW of offshore wind and 140GW of storage needed to deliver net zero electricity grid by 2035

Analysis from Imperial College London finds that government's headline figure to deliver 40GW of offshore wind by 2030 falls far short of levels required to decarbonise grid in line with UK's net zero ambition

The UK will need roughly 108GW of offshore wind capacity by 2035 - more than 10 times current capacity - to achieve a net zero electricity system by the middle of the next decade, researchers from Imperial...

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